Technology

Cyan Technology's eCOG1 microcontroller product is based on a novel 16-bit microprocessor core developed by Cambridge Consultants Limited. This was originally developed for embedded applications in ASICs and possesses several features which make it attractive for use in a range of microcontrollers...

• A compact, low-power core based on the Harvard architecture
• A novel synchronous serial interface which supports application development, debugging and test
• A comprehensive development toolset consisting of an assembler, a verified C compiler, a software simulator and in-system debugger enables engineers to evaluate the microcontroller quickly and easily.

The core has been successfully applied in ASICs for telecommunications, utility metering and low-rate radio datalinks. Cyan is now making it available in a range of microcontroller devices.

In Cyan's first product, eCOG1, this core has been equipped with hardware and timing support for a wide range of serial interfaces, vectored interrupt handling, an MMU, an external memory interface capable of managing SDRAMs, and analogue input support including an on-chip temperature sensor. The CyanIDE development toolset supports fully these on-chip peripherals and is available for download here.